Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What made Britons really mad was the fact that Queen Elizabeth had hoped to fly the Atlantic next month in one of the new planes, a fitting vehicle for Empire pride. Now she will have to go in one of BOAC's Douglas DC-7s. Said the London Daily Sketch: "At a time when state visits carry more prestige and importance than ever before, we are obliged to give the world a humiliating instance of Britain's dependence on America...
...Russians' jet-fueled ploy had some propaganda value, calling attention to the fact that they are ahead in the passenger-jet field. One side effect: the British, apparently suffering from wounded pride, hurriedly announced that they will fly a revamped Comet II this week from Northern Ireland to Orlando...
...with high prices indefinitely, the time may be at hand when employment agencies would do better to set up training courses for maids instead of an inquisition for employers. As one Los Angeles agent says, "We've got to do something to give these people more pride in their work." The alternative for the harried housewife is do-it-yourself...
...change the past by what one thinks about it. On civvy street Martin had been an actor (professionally) and a bad actor (morally). Now, as the whole past life of the undrowned man passes before his eyes, he re-enacts the parts he played, identifies his favorite sins-pride, sloth and greed-and recalls the judgment of a friend whose wife he had seduced: "This painted bastard here takes anything he can lay his hands on . . . the best part, the best seat, the best notice, the most money, the best woman . . . He's a cosmic case of the bugger...
With a heroine as unlikely and unlovely as Medusa, Novelist Taylor (A Wreath of Roses-TIME, March 21, 1949) has magically managed to write a brilliant and extremely funny book. At the end of a long life, the pride and pretense that made Angel unbearable in success make her magnificent in failure. Her outrageous behavior is somehow transmuted into tenderness. Ill and dying, she has a moment of believing that she is a child again, back in her mother's tiny grocery shop near the brewery, with factory sirens about to shred the morning air, and all of life...